stubborn thief

Chapter 215

Liu Chengzong found that the identity of the person is indeed very interesting.

For the same thing, if he is really a general of the imperial court, he might not even be able to enter Pingliang City.

And now, the giant bandits from Yan'an have stayed in his Zhongzhong Hanwang's mansion for eight days.

On the Guanlan Pavilion in the center of Liuhu Lake, King Han Zhu Danyan tugged on the hem of his coarse short shirt and sighed sadly.

Seeing that Liu Chengzong, who was reading next to him, glanced up at him, he quickly stuffed a handful of fried noodles into his mouth, and gulped five sips of water.

In the past few days, Han Wang has scolded himself more than 8000 times, which is very good. Why did he invite Liu Chengzong into the city?It made me worry every day.

Liu Chengzong looked down at the "Taixi Water Method" in Hanwang's mansion, and asked without raising his head, "Aren't you used to it?"

King Han froze for a moment, then shook his head quickly: "Eat...cough, I'm used to it."

Although Zhu Quanyu was a few years older than Liu Chengzong, Liu Shizi felt that the prince was just a big boy.

It has been normal for the past few days. When he first returned to Pingliang City, King Han was very strange.

The granary was robbed, and he was angry; the bank was robbed, and he was annoyed; but the bedroom was burned, and he was so sad that he cried for several days.

After asking, I found out that he grew up in the Eastern Palace since he was a child, and the old King Han was no longer there when he didn’t remember anything. At that time, he was too young to be a director. The affairs of the palace were submitted by Dong, the mother of Han Fan’s concubine, and asked Gaochun King to take care of the affairs of the clan. .

No one has lived in the dormitory for more than ten years, and the furnishings inside have not changed. The word father means this large and empty dormitory to King Han.

Now the palace has been destroyed, and the only memories left are gone.

After getting along these few days, this little King Han is not a particularly bad person, he is very smart, but all the wisdom in his mind has been used to cheat relatives of money.

There are also psychological problems.

There are no friends of the same age with similar status, and there are only three kinds of people around.

Either an official of the royal family holding him like a dog's leg; or an ordinary person who he can't see in front of him; or a local official he can't afford.

I haven't been out of Xiaoqiang much in my life, so that when I come into contact with people, I either condescend or act according to the wind, and I don't get along with people normally at all.

But this person is doing well. Now that their memorial has been sent to the court, Liu Chengzong did not let them apply for an official. He just reported the matter of defending the Fan truthfully, and attached an official application written by Yang Dingrui.

There is nothing new in the memorandum, all the rebels in the Lion Camp understand the truth, but the emperor may not understand it.

It is nothing more than that the drought in the Qin land can no longer feed so many hungry people, and the shortage of soldiers and food cannot feed so many hungry troops, so that people can't survive and go around begging for food, and they are placed in the interior. , Where to grab is also to grab, it is better to go out to grab.

"If you're not used to it, don't eat it."

Liu Chengzong raised his head and glanced at King Han: "If you don't want to eat the good meals in the royal residence, come here to grab my army rations."

It was just a simple sentence, but it made King Han think for a long time. He looked at Fan Sanlang, who was a part-time guard outside the Guanlan Pavilion, and asked very seriously: "General, is it very interesting to rebel?"

Liu Chengzong: "Huh?"

Is this what a prince should say?
"Xiao Wang has been with you for three days."

Han Wang raised his hand and gestured with three fingers: "In three days, you watched camp exercises three times in the martial arts field, twice in the morning and once in the afternoon; you gave food to the people twice, and the other day was the first seven days of the prefect of Pingliang. It's very interesting to play and sing with your soldiers."

"Xiao Wang thinks the general is someone who can accomplish things."

King Han licked his lips and said, "If Your Majesty doesn't give you an official title, why don't you bring me one?"

Liu Chengzong smiled and pointed at the coarse cloth clothes on Han Wang's body, as well as the fried noodles in his hand, and said, "So you're going to try it first, can you get used to eating and wearing it?"

Han Wang nodded excitedly: "I think it's okay, the coarse clothes are okay, and the food is not very good, but I heard that you often eat donkey meat and fire, it should be better than this."

Liu Chengzong adjusted his sitting posture, closed the book, and looked up at King Han for a while.

It wasn't until Han Wang felt guilty and looked away from him that Liu Chengzong said: "Don't be afraid, the big thing won't work, I will lead the troops westward, and I will vent my anger if I don't kill you."

His mind was seen through, King Han smiled embarrassedly, and then asked: "If you don't agree, you will take the soldiers away, and you won't harm my relatives in the feudal kingdom?"

Liu Chengzong nodded and sighed in his heart.

This Han Wang is very smart, especially when it comes to life and death issues, he has the ability to draw inferences from one instance.

It's a pity that he is a prince. If Lumi is a lieutenant with average conditions, he has studied hard since he was a child, and it is not impossible to pass the imperial examination.

"Tsk!"

Hearing that he said that he would not harm the clan, King Han was a little disappointed, shaking his head and saying: "This king knows..."

Liu Chengzong was amused: "Why, how many clans do you want me to kill?"

Han Wang nodded, then shook his head again, sat comfortably, sighed and laughed: "It's hard to say, you don't understand our Han Fan, look at other feudal states, the ancestors have done a lot of ridiculous things, our Han Fan is so poor that he tosses himself."

Liu Chengzong sneered: "You can't lie to me, my people will help you calculate the losses, and I know the accounts very well."

"In your vassal state, people robbed and burned more than [-] shi of rice and grain, and looted more than [-] taels of gold and silver. These are not all kinds of utensils, but they are enough to support the people of Pingliang Mansion for several years. Is this called poverty?"

After hearing this, King Han waved his hands and shook his head, and said: "That much rice belongs to all the county kings and generals in the city, and I am not alone. Do the math, there are so many county kings, and the grain is divided equally, and there is not much food left by each family. .”

"Especially in my palace, the rent cannot be collected, and I have to pay the court every year. I use the stored grain to put out some loans. It is too little to pay. Prince Lumi has never paid enough."

"This king has been in charge of the country for almost 20 years now." As he said, he pointed his thumb at himself and said, "Prince, the prince of Lumi Wanshi, he has saved less than [-] shi of rice and grain. Is ten thousand taels of silver too much?"

Liu Chengzong blinked: "What do you mean, the clan prince is poor like you?"

"Of course!"

The king of Han looked like you are a little ignorant: "The vassal states of the world are poorer than me and King Qing of Yinchuan and King Su of Lanzhou. During the years when the queen mother and concubine ruled the country, the income and expenditure of trade and things were just enough. The past few years have been worse than every year."

"So you don't know the situation of my feudal kingdom. It looks glamorous and beautiful. Sometimes I really envy the people outside. I wish I could leave, but I'm afraid of starvation. knew."

Han Wang raised his hand and said with his fingers: "In the year of Chenghua, one of our officials thought that the country was poor, so he couldn't bear the hardship, but he couldn't do anything else with this professional skill. He entered the Forbidden City as a eunuch, and was later dismissed Find it out and send it back to my ancestors for disposal."

"My ancestors thought about it. This ghostly place is so poor that he wants to run away. It's not surprising that the internal officials ran away, so they didn't deal with it. Let it go."

"The king of Hanyin fell ill and died. Before he died, he was afraid that he would lose his title as the county king, so he took a wild baby from outside to succeed him. Later, when he leaked the news, he was blackmailed by his relatives for half his life, and finally the country was expelled."

"In the year of Jiajing, King Jianning was so poor, alas, this man was ashamed, had no money in his hand, and lived by pawning things. Guess what he pawned in the end? He pawned the king's gold book, was discovered by the court, and turned into a concubine People, the country is eliminated."

"There are also generals and lieutenants who masked their faces and went out to be robbers who cut paths and robbed their relatives' caravans. These are all things they can do... The most extreme thing was in the Jiajing Dynasty, because the king of Xiangling wanted to occupy the monks of Kongtong Mountain. As soon as the monks were in a hurry to donate the land to the prince's mansion, King Xiangling joined more than 260 clan relatives and went to the emperor to sue the prince's mansion."

King Han held up his thumb and said, "It is said that we annexed the Yamada City, tortured and killed innocent people, and recruited rogues and traitors to hide things. In other words, they are accusing us of wanting to rebel."

"Fortunately, the emperor checked, and there is that golden cicada." Han Wang raised his hand and pointed out: "I am not in a hurry to let you kill him outside the city. They are all of the same generation. That is my brother, my brother."

Liu Chengzong paused, looked at King Han and said, "It can be seen that no one has been talking to you for a long time. Your brother should be the king of the county. How did you become a commoner?"

Han Wang smiled, and then said: "I was still young at that time, he was a concubine, his mother wanted to bribe the prefect of Fan at that time, and my mother and concubine were so scared that she hurried to bribe the prefect of Fan. It was also confiscated, and then I succeeded as the son of the world."

"Now I am the king, and he has robbed a lot of money and food, and he is also the king." Han Wang smiled miserably: "It's good."

Liu Chengzong once thought that Jin Chanzi was Luo Rucai, but later found out that the black donkey knight was Jin Chanzi.

And it's the second generation of Jin Chanzi.

He is not very interested in the grievances and grievances in King Han's mansion, but King Han's good entrustment to his elder brother is probably a mirror image, Jin Chanzi has been busy chasing and killing him, and has not grabbed much money.

The man led his troops to Ningzhou now, was beaten by Lian Guoshi, and fled into the mountains.

Seeing that Liu Chengzong didn't speak, King Han turned the topic aside: "Can you tell me what you plan to do with your troops to Qinghai?"

"Farming, fishing, nomadic, hunting, building castles and fighting wars, we can do what the Han people are capable of; we can also do what the pirates are capable of, in order to survive."

In fact, Liu Chengzong felt that he was similar to the leader of a nomadic tribe. It was nothing more than a nomad who lived for water and grass, and a wanderer who lived for soldiers and food.

Liu Chengzong sincerely felt that the future was uncertain, but it sounded like a brave adventure to the ears of King Han. He rubbed his hands and asked, "General, when you gain a firm foothold outside the Great Wall, I will report to the emperor and transfer it to you." How about it?"

Forgive me!

Liu Chengzong directly raised his hand to stop: "Don't, your Han Fan has 11 shi of rice per year. My two battalions are not considered war horses, and I can't eat so much in a year."

Han Wang knocked on the wooden bowl containing fried noodles and said, "I don't eat much, let them all stay here to fend for themselves, and I will take the princess to your place."

"Shut up!"

Liu Chengzong was very puzzled, stretched his arms and said: "Pingliang is such a good place, such a big city, come with me to eat and sleep in the open, not to mention that I am not familiar with the place of life there, otherwise I can only rely on Xining in Qinghai Lake Build a small castle, I think you are tired of living a good life."

"General, this king has given you his heart and soul. If this city is breached once, it can be breached a second time."

King Han extended his hand and said, "If you saved me this time, who will save me next time? What's more, you are recruiting rebels. When Emperor Gao is far away that day, you will not restrict me. I may be poor, but Comfortable and safe, I don't think you will harm me... let alone!"

As he said that, he raised his head: "It is my Han Fan tradition to ask for transfer to leave Pingliang. We shouldn't be fighting chaos. From the first generation to ask for transfer to the present, the fourth ancestor's family has no good people, and they don't let us leave. !"

Silly boy, your ancestors didn't ask for transfer to a poorer place like you.

Liu Chengzong said with a smile: "You still know that I am a rebel. If there is another rebellion in the future, then you will not fall immediately."

"What's wrong with the rebels? The fourth ancestor is also in trouble. I think that if my ancestors of the Han Fan could open the original domain, they would not be able to get up just to support our group of Eastern captives, and they would die of poverty."

Han Wang didn't care about this, he sat upright, and even deliberately moved forward: "It's not easy to rebel? Support me!"

Liu Chengzong waved his hands one after another: "You can just stay in Pingliang steadily, don't make trouble for me, your ancestors supported King Xiaoming, and in the end, you didn't throw them into the river and drowned, if you don't go with so many ways to survive, you have to choose one to die way."

Han Wang slapped his legs anxiously: "Don't, Pingliang is also a dead end. Seeing that the city wall is so high, it's useless. If it is breached, it will be breached."

Liu Chengzong figured it out, the king of Han had a great desire to survive, and if he could be properly guided, it would be a good thing for the people of Pingliang Mansion in the future.

He smiled and asked: "Do you want to know why it was breached? Do you want to know how it can not be breached? Do a few things for me and listen to me. I have a way to make it impregnable."

King Han was overjoyed, nodded and asked, "What's the matter, tell me, as long as it can be done, I will do it for you."

Liu Chengzong smiled with satisfaction, and said: "I read the accounts of the Wangfu, and your income is mainly four yuan. One is Lumi. Most of these Lumi grains come from Pingliang County, Zhenyuan, Jingzhou, Huating, Lingtai."

"The second is the rent, tax, and money for the tenants who own the Wangtian to cultivate; the third is the official mansion shops opened in the east city of Pingliang; the fourth is to sell tea and horses back and forth, which has not been very popular in recent years."

Liu Chengzong asked: "Didn't you realize that, except for the caravans, all the money earned is poor people's money? The more you earn, the poorer the people will be, and the more hatred and resentment towards you will be."

The king of Han was very puzzled: "No, this is not the law of heaven that there is rent money for the land, interest for borrowing money, and people have to pay food."

"You are right, this is the law of heaven, but if people cannot survive, they will rebel. Rebellion kills people, who will be killed? It is also a law of heaven to kill whoever has money and food."

"This has nothing to do with good or bad. It's just that if the earth is turned upside down today, the laws of heaven treat people equally. The sky wants you to die. If you are a poor person and follow the laws of heaven, you will starve to death. If you are a rich man, you will die if you follow the laws of heaven. If you want to live? It is against the sky."

King Han's expression was ugly, and he clapped his hands and said, "I wanted to make money from the rich, and I almost made it... It's all Jin Chanzi's fault for coming too early. If he comes later, I'll tell you, General."

He raised four fingers: "An hour later than breaking the city, this king can run away with 4 taels of money earned from the clan."

Liu Chengzong didn't know what was going on, and he didn't care. Anyway, the money had already been sent to Zhenyuan, so he waved his hand and said, "If you want to live, you must first have the hearts of the people. If you want the hearts of the people, you should reduce the rent and interest. You can live."

"Secondly, this city is too big. It is nine miles around the city, and there are one person at a time on the wall. Five thousand defenders are enough. The city wall is a permanent army formation. Your army formation is so loose, how can you hold it?"

"Well……"

The king of Han was dumbfounded when he heard the military knowledge, and suddenly realized: "Is this so? It turns out that the bigger and stronger the defensive city, the better. This king always thought that if it is strong and tall, it is as solid as gold."

It happened that there was paper and pen in Guanlan Pavilion, Liu Chengzong put the book aside, thinking that Han Fan had so much wealth, food and grass, and it happened that Han Wang also had this sense of crisis, so he went along with the flow to help him and let him live.

It is not easy for a prince to live through the next ten years of war these days.

He took a pen and paper, sat back and said, "Send some people to form a few caravans, carry tea to Xining, and help me take some people out to search for information at the front station, and see what is going on around Qinghai Lake. It’s all those tribes, and Xining has those chieftains and generals.”

Liu Chengzong said, Han Wang nodded: "It's so difficult, it's very simple."

"I haven't finished yet. In addition, I bought the tea vendor over there, put it in storage, bought farm tools, wood, iron ingots, cotton clothes, etc. along the way, and bribed the officials on my behalf. I can give you money."

In this matter, King Han was a little bit troubled.

He was very courageous, and at one point really thought about following Liu Chengzong to the west, even if he died in the west ten or eight years later, he would still have a big adventure and life would not be boring.

If he can be supported by Liu Chengzong, it will be even more exciting to let him have a rebellious addiction.

Even before Liu Shizi found out, he had gained a prince's little fanboy.

But the premise is that Liu Chengzong's army can protect him.

The king of Han was used to the sergeants of Pingliangwei, and once thought that the imperial army was like that.

In fact, the soldiers in Pingliangwei were not bad. They had to go to the autumn defense every year or be transferred to other squadrons. Therefore, there were a group of soldiers who were worthy of battle, but they lived in poverty all the year round. The mental outlook of this army was very poor.

Moreover, when suppressing the local people, the soldiers did not have much fighting spirit. The more moderate ones would throw the guns, cannons, bows and crossbows upside down, while the radical ones would directly rebel.

Uncles and uncles shouted to kill at the base of the city, and the defenders on the city could not look forward and backward.

Seeing Liu Shizi's mighty teacher in this situation, King Han only had four words in his mind.

Damn, sweep the world!
Anyway, depending on General Liu's temperament, don't worry about where you go, as long as you don't do anything wrong, you probably won't lose him.

But without the protection of Liu Chengzong, Han Wang became very courageous again, he said: "It's easy to say anything else, bribe the border guards, once the matter is leaked, I will be in serious trouble."

"You help me, I help you."

Liu Chengzong spread his hands and said: "I will help you to the extent that you can do things. If you help me gain a firm foothold in Qinghai, I will tell the familiar leader not to embarrass King Han."

Han Wang looked at Liu Chengzong and thought about it, and finally rubbed his hands together and said: "You let me reduce the rent and interest rate, what should I do if I don't have money later, I want to raise a big family...you go to Qinghai, can you sell me horses?" ?”

Liu Chengzong smiled and glanced to the side, cooperating with himself to enter the Han Palace to open up business.

"I don't know. I can only check the information first. I don't know what's there. I originally planned to go there to occupy land and cultivate it. I'll see which sweater is lucky enough to rob me. I'll snatch him away."

Liu Chengzong raised his hand to show King Han: "But if His Highness King Han is willing to help me, these things will be much easier."

"I'm definitely willing, who doesn't want Qinghai Cong, but what if the officials over there sue the king and are arrested and taken to the high wall of Fengyang Pass?"

Liu Chengzong spread his hands and said nothing.

The king of Han said again: "I'm locked up on a high wall, you have to save me!"

"How can I save you? Your clan's high wall is not in Lanzhou, but in Fengyang. I tell you that I can rescue you. Do you believe me?"

King Han thought for a while, and it was the same reason. He sighed helplessly, made up his mind, calmed down and said, "Okay, I'll choose people to go to Xining later...how can I save my life?"

Seeing that he agreed, Liu Shizi was in a good mood.

Another insurance for himself, now even if Emperor Chongzhen does not agree to appoint an official, the way to the west is nothing more than a war problem, and there is a way to buy and sell supplies on the surface.

He picked up his pen and drew while saying: "Now that the bedroom palace is burned, you just happen to repair the palace. The useless city walls should be demolished. Build a small castle with the back of Liuhu Lake. It is better to walk a hundred steps on Wednesday, and the height is as high as the palace." The height of the wall shall not exceed the limit."

"There are two floors in the fort, and the top floor is equipped with blunderbuss-eye shooting towers, sharp-angled enemy towers are set up on all sides, and the walls are immediately facing the four sides. Let's see what the specifications and range of Pingliangwei's guns are. Eight enemy towers and the edge of the city wall are equipped with guns. 24, protect the whole body."

"Drain the water from Liuhu Lake to repair the moat, put some pavilions on the opposite bank, try to prevent the siege weapons from being deployed, store three to five thousand stone grains in the cellar, dig two wells, and two or three hundred soldiers guarding two or three thousand will not be a big problem."

"But you have to give people money."

Liu Chengzong raised his finger and pointed at King Han: "I heard from your long history that you don't even want to give thousands of taels to the sergeant when the war starts. You are really stingy!"

"Then who knew that the city would be destroyed as soon as it was destroyed. I originally planned to give them [-] yuan."

Han Wang said, looking at Liu Chengzong's drawing of flowing clouds and flowing water, he was surprised: "General, is this what you drew by hand?"

"Whatever? I've been preparing for a long time."

It's just that this kind of castle is not prepared for the Han Palace, and it is even smaller.

It was an illegal building he prepared for himself in Qinghai.

The king and the king happily agreed that before the emperor's reply letter arrives, Liu Chengzong will select the site in Han Wangfu and complete the design of the entire castle. The officials in Xijiang, and purchased the materials needed for the Lion Camp, and stocked them in the warehouse.

Liu Chengzong also selected talents in the Lion Camp, and finally chose Chen Qindai, who was proficient in Mongolian language, to lead the two Shizhan auxiliary troops to join the westward team of Han Wangfu to investigate intelligence in the Qinghai Lake area.

Standing on the west wall of Pingliang City, Liu Chengzong looked at the back of the team traveling far away, as if a fire was burning in his heart.

He still can't fully trust the King of Han, but if the relationship between the two parties goes further, perhaps a two thousand-mile-long information transmission route can be established from Qianhu in Saimen to the King Han's Mansion in Pingliang and then to Xining.

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)